Archives for 8 October 2016

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger:
High Days and Holidays; Birthdays and Boycott Days: (c) 2016 Edward C Lunnon: Physical: Adv CBD / Mental: Adv CBD My blog site has been quiet for a long time now. That means that all is not well in the State of France! Nor in the State of South Africa and Not in the United States. Nor in the state of Ed! We are all familiar with the terrorist attacks in France and Je Suis Charlie and all the subsequent terrorist attacks. In South Africa, we are currently dealing with student boycotts, fees must fall, university closures and police …

South Africa: We Are Going to Succeed This Time - Say Optimistic TRTC Ex-Workers: But, according to Mr Gaehler, due to his tight constituency programme in his constituency he was unable to come to Mthatha. "Because of my understanding of the problem and the fact that I am also a member of the Select Committee on Petitions and Executive ...
Source: "Mthatha" - BingNews.
South Africa: Minister Nomvula Mokonyane Addresses Amatola Water Board Strike Action, 8 Oct: Amatola Water Board supplies water to several key cities and towns in the Eastern Cape such as Buffalo City, Mthatha, Grahamstown, …

On Thursday night police from the Mount Road cluster arrested two suspects in separate incidents for dealing in drugs. The SAPS in Port Elizabeth is committed to stopping the drug trade in the metro and will intensify their efforts to ensure that those dealing in drugs are arrested and that their trade no longer exist.
On 6 October 2016 at about 22:15, members from Mount Road station assisted by the K9 unit were patrolling Cape Road when they spotted a silver Toyota Yaris. The vehicle was stopped and searched. Nineteen bags of cocaine and 9 pieces of rock cocaine was found inside the …

Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger:
A Paradise of Photo Opportunities: 10 Things to Photograph in the Bay: The Bay is one photogenic lady. Like a model she puts on her finest evening wear, paints her lips in bright red, add a touch of jewellery, high stilettos and get all dollied up for the people of the Bay; day in and day out. She poses in our city, around our museums, in front of century-old architecture. She tangoes in the colours of sunsets, in the ocean breeze and every now and then she heads over to the wild side where lions and …

South Africa: Minister Nomvula Mokonyane Addresses Amatola Water Board Strike Action, 8 Oct: Amatola Water Board supplies water to several key cities and towns in the Eastern Cape such as Buffalo City, Mthatha, Grahamstown, Port Alfred etc. and as such the strike has the potential to adversely affect the supply of water to citizens in the affected ...
Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews.
Cape Town Fringe Becomes Tenth Member Of World Fringe Alliance; 2017 Storytelling Project Launched: Membership is by invitation, and currently includes Hollywood, New York, Amsterdam, Prague, Brighton, …

Spotlight on Oyster Bay: Endless safe, sandy beaches and an interesting round-up of tourist activities, along with the hamlet’s close proximity to Jeffreys Bay, St Francis and Cape St Francis Bay make it an unbeatable out-of-season hideaway. But, for those who enjoy a little ...
Source: "Jeffreys Bay" - BingNews. …

NMMU students threaten to ‘braai and eat zebras’: Port Elizabeth – Students from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) on Friday posted a number of threats on social media that they would “braai and eat” the zebras who graze nearby on the university’s nature reserve if management did not ...
Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews.
Australia facing first-ever 5-0 ODI whitewash: When the teams face off tomorrow in the fourth match at Port Elizabeth it is difficult to see how the visitors possibly can contain the South African batting line-up. The Australian batsmen are not without blame …

Port Elizabeth: The Family Violence Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in Port Elizabeth is appealing to the communities to assist them in tracing two allege rape accused. The accused are wanted on separate incidents after they failed to appear in court.
On 5 October 2015 about 11:20, a 6 year old Bethelsdorp child was allegedly raped while playing with her friends. According to a police report, the accused called the child to accompany him to the shop. The accused was unknown to the child. He took the child to a house not far from where she is staying and allegedly raped her. No one …

After announcing that normal operations would commence on Friday 7 October and lectures on Monday 10 October 2016 the NMMU has had to retract saying: "Unfortunately, the situation on our North and South campuses became volatile today. As a result, we are reluctant to immediately go ahead with the resumption of classes given our concerns for the safety of staff and students. Therefore, the University will remain closed on Monday."
Related: #FeesMustFall: NMMU determined to resume university operations | Student response to resumption of academic year at #NMMU
Editor: Let us pause and …

This image is from the MyPE Editor's Flickr Account - offering some topical daily images from a phone smarter than Alan, occasional images from a DSLR and scanned images of Port Elizabeth as he wanders around the Bay pretending to know a lot and sometimes succeeding in making a complete hash of it!
William Archer Way
Image by awstraton
The Rector of the Grey Institute, William Archer Way, from 1911 to 1928. Way was the last rector of the Hill Grey and the first rector of the new Grey in Mill Park upon it's completion in 1915.
Mr Way died in a Johannesburg Hospital Sunday 19 February …